In the discrete element simulation of granular materials, the modelling of contacts is crucial for the prediction of the macroscopic material behaviour. From the tribological point of view, friction at contacts needs to be modelled carefully, as it depends on several factors, e.g. contact normal load or temperature to name only two. In discrete element method (DEM) simulations the usage of Coul...

A model with local interparticle diffusion is considered, in contrast with the classical model of Ostwald ripening (the mean field model) and its multiparticle extensions which have long range interactions. Simulations of the evolution of the system show that the asymptotic behavior obeys a power law. It is also found that the scaled asymptotic distribution of particle radii is broader than in ...

We consider interacting Bose particles in an external local potential. It is shown that large class of quasicrystal potentials cannot sustain any type Bose-Einstein condensates. Accordingly, at spatial dimensions D ≤ 2 such a supersolid not possible via condensates finite temperatures. The latter also hold true for the two-dimensional Fibonacci tiling. However, supersolids do arise from infinit...

an integrated model for magnetoencephalography (meg) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) is proposed. in the proposed model, meg and fmri outputs are related to the corresponding aspects of neural activities in a voxel. post synaptic potentials (psps) and action potentials (aps) are two main signals generated by neural activities. in the model, both of meg and fmri are related to t...

considerable information exists in the literature showing that expansive layer silicates are not the only clay minerals present in vertisols. however, the presence of a very high clay content dominated by fine clay, regardless of the clay type, together with the wetting and drying cycle in the soil can also produce a high shrink-swell potential. we studied some vertisols with diverse parent mat...

Amorphous media at finite temperatures, be them liquids, colloids, or glasses, are made of interacting particles that move chaotically due to thermal energy, continuously colliding and scattering off each other. When the average configuration in these systems relaxes only at long times, one can introduce effective interactions that keep the mean positions in mechanical equilibrium. We introduce...

The prediction of the strength of the electrorheological (ER) effect is the main concern in a theoretical investigation of ER fluids. The ER effect originates from the induced interaction between the polarized particles in an ER fluid. As the mismatch in material parameters (either conductivities or dielectric constants) is responsible for the ER effects, previous theoretical studies have taken...

We report disorder to lamellar transition in a system of spherically symmetric particles where the interparticle potential consists of a short-ranged attraction and a longer-ranged repulsion. The system provides a simplified model for aqueous dispersions of colloidal particles and globular proteins that may exhibit stable/metastable clusters or microscopic phases. By using a non-mean-field dens...

Introduced is a lattice-gas with long-range 2-body interactions. An effective inter-particle force is mediated by momentum exchanges. There exists the possibility of having both attractive and repulsive interactions using finite impact parameter collisions. There also exists an interesting possibility of coupling these long-range interactions to a heat bath. A fixed temperature heat bath induce...